We all recognize that our democracies find it difficult to resist the automation of technological civilizations as well as industrial and consumer societies. Ultimately, within these, we finally are being manipulated so much more subtle and refined than we were by the methods used in post-totalitarian societies.

We do not draw benefit because we also are victims of the same automation and are often unable to avoid falling into artifice or exceed our concerns about our personal survival to become responsible individuals who truly contribute to the creation of a sustainable and peaceful world – the creation of the collective destiny.

Our world is fully made up of systems, living or non-living, nested and in interaction. The society and the economy are two major systems which control is ensured by the use of cybernetics (the science of systems control). By definition, a balanced cybernetic system has the property of self-regulation. A trend in one way automatically creates the conditions for the reverse trend. Such systems demonstrate high stability in time. However, we note that all humanity has a general inability to control the situation. In sum, our systems are not balanced. Currently we misuse of cybernetics.

It is for this reason that modern society seems to lose more and more the spirit of community, natural empathy, affection between human beings and respect for the environment. It is now necessary to find a way to overcome all these dangers coming from individualism.

We should stop seeing globalization as a negative factor leading to the disappearance of the primacy of states and the domination of the markets. We all know that the time of states’ domination was marked by terrible wars and totalitarianism. Regarding the domination of markets, it is simply the consequence of individualization too implanted in our societies. Globalization simply has the face that we attribute to it by our collective actions.

However, increasingly, people are calling for a strengthening of the global capacity to regulate markets and international relations. Today, the international relations are always supposed to relate to the interests of certain states rather than ethical standards and positive and rational exchanges. So people are claiming another globalization – an alternative globalization – a different one – globalization with a human face.

The concept of global governance system must not refer to a world state, as some people imagine or fear, but at a orderly system (balanced cybernetic system) in which the states are increasingly guided by international ethical rules. These rules should not only be based on an agreement between states but also on a massive public support generated by a global civil society.

It is therefore necessary to establish a regulation. But are international regulations possible without an international state? Well, yes; it would be based on a new kind of social agreement with its system of values. This social agreement and its system of values would be based on a vision of the notions of values and reason printed in the human consciousness. This concept of social agreement would be based on the consent of individuals and would commit them.

A local civil society would be a participatory process, located on territory, through which individuals are in phase with each other and with the centers of economic and political authorities (which include institutions and companies). It would be a self-organizing activity designed for specific purposes related to progressive social and human values.

By civil society, we always understand autonomy and self-organization. But this is not to forget communication and transparency, two major components of a balanced cybernetic system. In the ideal territorial civil society, we logically see a slight withdrawal of the state in his usual roles and above all a creation of civic engagement islands working in symbiosis with the state (act and move in the same direction). These perfectly organized islands are generated by local dynamics of progress. The challenge is to create an ethics-based community, that is to say, a community based on morality, sharing and respect. All societies of the world (Western and non-Western societies) largely have the potential to experience something similar. For what reason? Simply because all cultures have traditions of human dignity, tolerance, use of reason and public deliberation.

If the territorial civil society is related to the territory, the global civil society is related to the concept of positive interdependence. Thus, a global civil society can without any problem, and should necessarily exist in the absence of an alias world state or a super institution with great power. The risk of misuse of this power is too big. However, we should be able to understand this interdependence and, as well, should be able to make a beneficial use of it. The state of our societies shows us that this is not the case yet.

In addition, no movement can reflect the aspirations of people around the world. This is why many say that the idea of a global civil society is a mistake because it is to represent a world opinion and substitute the functioning of representative democracy at national level.

Also, how global civil society can convince states to adopt a multilateral alternative framework to address critical issues? Well, there is simply no alternative but to try to establish a set of global rules based on consent and ethics.

The only way to achieve the consent of the mass (macro level) is to focus only on the micro level – by a real-time experiment made by the stakeholders in each territory of the world.

The multiple civic implications at the territorial level (also called singular territorial dynamics) fit together like a giant puzzle with an ingenious implementation mechanism using a powerful catalyst (Big Smart Data of EL4DEVconcept) and a multidisciplinary activity of conceptualization. The whole will form a highly scalable and adaptable modular structure. Then, from this, the real global civil society will be born – in its prototype form. It will be born in a way that no one expects.

The rules of exchanges and global management of world affairs would ultimately be defined within the social agreement, in a highly participatory way and by the mass consent. It’s the only solution to form this global civil society so imagined and described as an utopia. In short, the social agreement will only be made by continually increasing civic involvement of stakeholders in each country around the world. The connection between the territories will be possible by the similarities encountered in civil implications. These similarities experienced by different peoples will be the foundations of the social agreement. The result of the whole is greater than the sum of all components set (a principle of cybernetics).

The social agreement will never be imposed on people; neither its values. It will exist thanks to the deep and shared desire of a heterogeneous international population looking to evolve into a sustainable lifestyle more respectful of people and the environment. It will be born from a participatory conceptualisation by all stakeholders of the world. It will be related to the concept of positive interdependence and new humanism. The civil society will be evolving from its primary form (the prototype form) to several increasingly sophisticate forms but whose fundamentals remain the same. The engines of this positive evolution are conductive education, thought and subtlety of mind and the intelligence of the heart.

Everybody knows that an amazing amount of data is continuously collected since our beginning of the digital age. Now the question is how we can harness all this information to help meet the challenges facing our societies in this century, while particularly addressing concerns about the ethical issues this raises. Across the globe companies, organizations and institution are hardly competing to exploit the potential of this Big Data. Everywhere, companies are developing methods for mining and modeling these increasing amounts of data becoming available about people.

If you watch or listen to what is happening around you, you will understand that people are too much excited about the potential of big data because of the prospect of working on large amounts of previously unreachable user data in any field, mainly for business purpose and sometimes for much more enigmatic reasons.

What about education benefits? Big Data in education is a more and more hot topic. People are looking its potential for reform, others are concerned about privacy, and some don’t see why spending money for it. For sure, Big Data is deeply revolutionising education. Why? Just because we all know that education is more and more occurring online or in educational software, resulting in an explosion of data that can be used to improve educational effectiveness. So, Big Data should really help to deliver an education system that enables to realise the full potential of people.

Some people say Big Data can unlock the door to a more personalised learning experience which will motivate young people to study and better equip them for life beyond the classroom. With Big Data, teachers can analyse students and their work patterns in order to pinpoint where teaching can be personalized and optimized. Big Data can capture usage data and social signals in order to develop user profiles and enable teachers to deliver personalised learning. So, Big Data will drive to data-driven classrooms, the concept of digitally collecting and analyzing students’ work, tracking and reporting performance.

But people also say this could help to ensure countries have workforces with the skills required to succeed in today’s highly competitive globalised economy. But why only in order to compete economically? Why this huge opportunity would it only be for schools? Why only for young people? This big data could it not be exploited to continuously train individuals able to better understand their environment and the human – individuals who can play a positive role in society? We must go beyond the simple acquisition of knowledge.

In our lives today, algorithms are analyzing our behaviour (both on and offline and all the time). They shape what we do in the moment, and they often steer us toward what we do next. But where is the ethics in that?

A Big Data dedicated to education would have problems to overcome with the classic approach people have.

This requires concerted action by all those involved (from policy-makers and educators, to researchers, students and the private sector) working together closely to find effective solutions to unlock such enormous potential and work on ethical issues. Collaboration, communication and transparency are essential between all stakeholders.

But Big Data is too big to analyse using conventional techniques or using relational database management. Most current definitions of Big Data emphasise volume, velocity (real-time information), and variety. Data of this kind requires many specialists processing platforms to analyze it.

It seems that, no country in the world will be able to capitalise fully on this potential without taking action to address a wide range of issues. Skills must be acquired to harness the power of big data; technologies and infrastructure developed to collect, store, share and analyse it; and policies agreed to address concerns surrounding privacy and security, and the potentially dehumanising impact of big data on education. Both the legal and ethical questions posed by the use of big data are still not answered.

The method and objectives of EL4DEV are different. In this sense, EL4DEV offers an alternative approach of Big Data.

EL4DEV is a resourceful and adaptable framework for self-learning which knowledge is provided by the real-time experience of each of us, all over the world. For many people it may sounds like utopia. The role of EL4DEV is to initiate an intelligent, collective and collaborative process of investigation that is an exchange between all individuals, rather than simple speeches or a mere transmission of knowledge.

We are in a different approach of education. The sum of knowledge acquired from day-to-day experiences anywhere in the planet is immediately modeled thanks to algorithms and available to all the people. So your own experience serves the collective. People immediately implement this knowledge within the society to rewrite the existing socio-economic and behavioural models and meet the various local issues. The system also analyses all the consequences of interaction of people and the actions performed. Thus, it is able to establish predictive scenarios based on the actions performed in real time.

So, here is the teaching method and content EL4DEV provides. This teaching is accessible to everybody, at any age, in any country and has pretensions to an intelligent and ethical management of world affairs as well as better relations between individuals. EL4DEV is a powerful process of analysing, modelling and sharing the collective experience in order to raise awareness and motivate any people. EL4DEV is a powerful process of bringing back dignity to every individual so as to change him in agent of positive change.

Everyone aspires to play a positive role in society. With EL4DEV, your behaviour can finally help change the world. These actions are within the reach of any individual on the planet regardless of its socio-cultural environment, education background and gender. That is why we talk here of Big Data.

EL4DEV meets the challenges on the possible dehumanisation of education and addresses concerns surrounding privacy of data. Data of this kind do not require other processing platforms to analyze it. This huge opportunity of Big Data is not only for schools and students since EL4DEV is an open learning framework. This big data is aimed to be exploited continuously only to train individuals able to better understand their environment and the human. Here, we talk about ethical Big Data.

EL4DEV is an atypical startup aimed to teach moral values to all individuals in order to create, expand or consolidate the collective in society. Therefore, the EL4DEV program is an experimental and innovative learning environment. This one is transformative and continuously generates knowledge at many levels. The acquired knowledge is the collective awareness of the world, issues beyond our persons, our interdependence and the importance of « living together ». EL4DEV generates wisdom since the program automatically requires thought, reasoning, creativity and reflexivity in order to lead each individual in the world to become independent and responsible.Pedagogy is conductive because EL4DEV focuses on the development of a sense of initiative in each individual. http://el4dev.com/

A stimulating and creative theme park to teach moral values to people to create, expand or consolidate the collective society. The only way to convince people is to teach them by experience, by internalizing them. People must be in a position to experiment continuously, otherwise this instruction will absolutely devoid of content and be without continuity.

We should all boost our cerebral activity, stimulate our memory. We must learn, study, because if we do not use the open space and the capacity of our brain, others may find ways to use them in our place (Eng).

EL4DEV does not address his audience as children in infancy. It is intended for a responsible and voluntary audience able to reason.
EL4DEV is a humanist program that appeals more to your thinking than your emotional.
EL4DEV fights against the spread of collective inattention.
EL4DEV encourages individuals to seek to know more about themselves in order to act in the best within the society.
EL4DEV is highly reflexive and altruistic then denounces the creation of problems designed only to provide solutions nourishing the personal interests of some individuals.
EL4DEV aims to out all individuals from ignorance and confusion.